San Bernardino County jumps on Riverside County in all-star baseball game

SAN BERNARDINO ­— Ralph Mohammed opened the gates and Casey Sheehan brought the flood.

Mohammed (Grand Terrace) hit a three-run double and Sheehan (Redlands East Valley) followed with a bases-clearing triple during a 10-run sixth inning as San Bernardino led Riverside 15-3 as of press time Monday night in the Inland Empire Baseball Coaches’ Association All-Star Game at San Manuel Stadium.

San Bernardino took the lead in the third after Dylan Mitchell (Serrano) singled and scored three batters later on a sacrifice fly by Ryan Mota (Fontana Kaiser).

San Bernardino stretched its lead in the fifth, Breyer Gayle (Yucaipa) reached on a walk, took second on a groundout, advanced to third on a wild pitch by Daniel Naus (Elsinore) and scored on a wild pitch by Nick Ray (San Jacinto).

In the sixth, Gerardo Torreblanca (Fontana) singled, Chris Mathewson (Fontana Kaiser) was hit by a pitch and Nathan Hardaman (Apple Valley) walked to load the bases before Mohammed cleared them with a double to the left-field wall.

Riverside pitcher Adam Burciaga (Indio) walked four of the next five batters before Sheehan drilled a 1-1 pitch from to the wall in right-center to score three more, and San Bernardino led 12-0 after the sixth.

Riverside finally got on the scoreboard in the seventh on a three-run double from Daniel Erbina (La Sierra) but Erbina was thrown out trying to score on a single by Austin Hovivian (Hemet).

Burciaga suffered the loss, allowing 10 runs on five hits, five walks and one hit batter.

Mathewson earned the victory with two hitless innings to start the game. He struck out four – including the last two batters he faced – and did not walk a batter on 26 pitches.

Tommy Pincin (Upland), the 26th-round pick of the New York Mets in last week’s Major League Baseball First-Year Play Draft, did not play. Rainier Aguilar (San Gorgonio) started at catcher for San Bernardino.

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Also absent were Chino Hills stars Aaron Dominguez and Cody Sporrer, and Tommy Anderson (Oak Hills), the Mojave River League’s Player of the Year.